Why machine learning benefits the rich, and everyone else is toast - TechRepublic

Why is machine learning finally real? As he declared: "The algorithms that early researchers and current practitioners use are ravenous for data and we finally have enough data on the planet to feed them. They also need scale-out computation and storage at low cost." In fact, the mountains of data that we now enjoy are a direct result of high-quality open source software running on commodity hardware: More applications churning out more data for more people. Despite this low-cost hardware and software, and its impact on machine learning, let's be clear: Big enterprises are the primary beneficiaries.